In brief, Reflections is a collection of nostalgic essays and sketches, wide-ranging in scope, most of which I wrote during my retirement. I tried to provide little vignettes or snapshots of life in the villages and sugar estates of colonial Guyana. I looked back at the social and recreational activities, the Primary School education, and the unique holiday celebrations in the colonial times. Included are reminiscences on teachers of my alumni school, Corentyne High in Guyana, and on teachers of Bryant High, Queens, New York, where I had taught. Shakespeare, whose plays I have greatly admired and enjoyed teaching, receives a glowing tribute on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Some of the articles look back elegiacally at some of the most treasured things that have fallen victim to progress, for example, the single-screen cinemas, the comics "Classics Illustrated", and the classic All-steel Raleigh Bicycles.
